Word: penalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were kept at public expense in a $40-weekly suite in Brooklyn's topflight St. George Hotel. Why weren't they held in jail or sent to prison for stealing the revolvers? Because New York authorities do not trust their ability to keep order in their own penal institutions. They were afraid that Lefty and The Rabbit would be killed by a friend or hireling of Mazziotta's. Many times known murderers have gone free because the witnesses against them were murdered...
Disregarding the fact that fat men are funny by definition, Slezak performs nobly as Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing...
...semidocumentary" style-which generally means only that the picture has no love story. In this case, it means something resembling clever crusading journalism, with a weather eye on the circulation figures. There is a moral in Producer Walter Wanger's tale: the need for reform in U.S. penal institutions is critical. The moral is slickly coated with violence, however, and the pill should go down easy with the mass public...
Unlike the book, the film version of From Here to Eternity does not bury its dramatic aspects under a heavy mass of superfluous detail and fuzzy verbiage. Where James Jones spent pages describing the torments of the penal stockade at Sheffield Barracks in Hawaii, director Fred Zinneman achieves the same effects by a few shots of a brutal guard and several whispered conversations. The scenario is a masterpiece of ingenuity and economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate...
...Istanbul. Though he personally abhorred emancipated women (they argued, instead of saying yes), he begged Turkey's women to unveil, and most did. He abolished the Moslem sheriat (law) and took the best from Europe to replace it-Switzerland's civil code, pre-Fascist Italy's penal code, Germany's commercial code...